Pyramid Review

The Apocalypse Stone

Written by Jason Carl & Chris Pramas

96 pages, $16.95

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The Apocalypse Stone is an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons adventure designed
for powerful characters (4-6 characters levels 15 and above are
recommended). Adapting this adventure for lower levels is theoretically
possible but would not be easy. More importantly, reduced power wouldn't
fit with the epic scope of the story line. Adapting it to higher levels
probably won't be necessary.

This adventure could probably work as a stand-alone adventure, provided
the players were given suitably powerful characters, but would work best
as part of a seriously long-running (years at least) campaign. In fact,
as written, The Apocalypse Stone is intended to be the final adventure of
such a campaign -— and the game world is not likely to survive the
experience!

I will remain intentionally vague about the details of the bigger picture
of this adventure as the potential enjoyment of this adventure depends
heavily upon the DM keeping his/her players in the dark as to what's
really going on. If you run this one correctly your players won't be
disappointed. They may very well end up seriously ticked off, but not
disappointed.

TAS begins with a very well conceived introduction and setup, despite the
fact that the writers do use the deplorable phrase "You're all . . .

This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.